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40This paper takes Udo Thiel’s The Early Modern Subject: Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity from Descartes to Hume as an example of a study that aims to provide an account of a particular philosophical development, and discusses both the methodological requirements and the philosophical commitments connected with this ambition. In a first step, I distinguish between two fundamentally different ways of thinking about philosophical development, viz. externalism and internalism with regard to h…Read more
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25Changing one's own Feelings: Spinoza and Shaftesbury on Philosophy as TherapyIn Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (ed.), Emotional Minds: The Passions and the Limits of Pure Inquiry in Early Modern Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 121. 2012.
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24Schwerpunkt: Hermann Cohens PhilosophieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 59 (2): 221-226. 2011.
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12Self-Knowledge: A History (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2016.The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry. At the same time, some sort of self-knowledge is often regarded as a necessary condition of our being a human agent or human subject. Thus self-knowledge is taken to constitute both the beginning and the end of humans' search for wisdom, and as such it is intricately bound up with the very idea of philosophy. Not surprisingly therefore, the Delphic injunction 'Know thyself' has fascinated phil…Read more
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17Langer: Philosophie des FühlensIn Ursula Renz & Hilge Landweer (eds.), Klassische Emotionstheorienclassical Emotion Theories. From Plato to Wittgenstein: Von Platon Bis Wittgenstein, Walter De Gruyter. 2008.
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12Hume: Natur und soziale Gestalt der AffekteIn Ursula Renz & Hilge Landweer (eds.), Klassische Emotionstheorienclassical Emotion Theories. From Plato to Wittgenstein: Von Platon Bis Wittgenstein, Walter De Gruyter. 2008.
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34Der neue Spinozismus und das Verhältnis von deskriptiver und revisionärer MetaphysikDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 63 (3). 2015.Relying on the assumption that Spinoza makes a double use of the principle of sufficient reason, Michael Della Rocca has defended a reconstruction of Spinoza’s approach as a metaphysical outlook according to which all particulars vanish in the only and one divine substance. This implies nothing less than a radical attempt to suggest a new and completely revisionary form of metaphysics. After a short discussion of Strawson’s distinction between revisionary and descriptive metaphysics and an expos…Read more
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8Smith: Sympathie, moralisches Urteil und InteresselosigkeitIn Ursula Renz & Hilge Landweer (eds.), Klassische Emotionstheorienclassical Emotion Theories. From Plato to Wittgenstein: Von Platon Bis Wittgenstein, Walter De Gruyter. 2008.
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38Von Marburg nach Pittsburgh: Philosophie als TranszendentalphilosophieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 59 (2): 249-270. 2011.The article reconstructs some of the basic decisions underlying Hermann Cohen′s theoretical philosophy by drawing a line to some claims of Winfrid Sellars′ and to one aspect of Robert Brandom′s philosophy. The first part is concerned with a comparison of the main theses of Cohen′s book Kants Theorie der Erfahrung and Sellars′ early essay entitled Some remarks on Kant′s Theory of Experience, both authors reading the Critique of Pure Reason as the discovery of a new, holistic concept of experien…Read more
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21Spinozas Erkenntnistheorie: Eine naturalisierte Epistemologie?Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 57 (3): 419-432. 2009.This article addresses the question whether or not, in his Ethics, Spinoza is committed to a naturalized epistemology. In the first step, the cognitive psychological principles involved in the concept of imagination are discussed. It is shown that Spinoza does indeed suggest a causal account for the contents of human thought, yet, in contrast to many psychologist views he does not privilege physicalist explanations, but allows for historical as well as for linguistic accounts. In the second sect…Read more
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10Kantisches Denken als Stilgesetz: Kantianismus und Neukantianismus in Ernst Cassirers KulturphilosophieIn Ralph Schumacher, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Volker Gerhardt (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Ix. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Bd. I: Hauptvorträge. Bd. Ii: Sektionen I-V. Bd. Iii: Sektionen Vi-X: Bd. Iv: Sektionen Xi-Xiv. Bd. V: Sektionen Xv-Xviii, De Gruyter. pp. 323-330. 2001.